Films We Like has announced the award-winning documentary Godland by Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason (A White, White Day) will open February 3rd at TIFF Bell Lightbox (Toronto), and at selected theatres across Canada.
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Solomon, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, lives and works in a New York City recycling center. Convinced that his missing mother has been abducted by aliens, he has built himself a radio telescope to intercept possible communications from outer space. He meets by chance the attractive Chuyao, an employee of a nail salon in an irregular situation, who also shares a personal interest in UFOs. After a violent altercation with her thuggish boyfriend, the two left behind escape to the West in search of the truth.
The critically acclaimed neo-Western stars Haley Lu Richardson and Owen Teague as two estranged siblings who return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, where they confront a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
Murat is incarcerated in the U.S.’ Guantanamo detention camp. Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence, until she discovers Bernhard Docke. The reserved, level-headed human rights lawyer and the temperamental Turkish mother – now fighting side-by-side for Murat’s release. Docke is patient, Rabiye is not. She’d actually prefer to be back home with her family but finds herself totally enmeshed in world politics. She goes with Bernhard to Washington, and right up to the Supreme Court to bring legal action against George W. Bush. Bernhard watches out for her. And Rabiye makes him laugh. With heart and soul. And in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
When Flowers Are Not Silent looks at the aftermath of protests in Belarus against the country’s long-standing leader Alexander Lukashenka – who in 2020 claimed more than 80% of all votes – after the European Union, local opposition and a large part of the population called foul on the election results.
On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to support herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encounters a troubled teenager named Talulah whom she invites into her home. With them, Talulah experiences the warmth of a family for the first time. Although she suddenly disappears, her free spirit has a lasting influence. Elisabeth and her children grow in confidence and begin to take risks, changing the trajectory of their lives.
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospital is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know."
It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1970, the Atlantic Ocean. A US patrol boat meets a Soviet fishing vessel. A Soviet sailor jumps across the icy water onto the American boat in a frantic bid for freedom. To his horror, and to the outcry of the world media, the Americans return him to the Soviets. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic, first-person re-enactment by the would-be defector, 86-year-old Simas Kudirka, we relive one of the most unpredictable Cold War muddles.
Judith (Virginie Efira) is leading a busy double life: one in France and one in Switzerland. She has two lovers, Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez) with whom she has a little girl Ninon (Loïse Benguerel), and Melvil (Bruno Salomone), with whom she has two older boys. What seems like a delicate balancing act from Judith is a life built on lies, secrets, and a constant juggle between the same conversations without making any progress. With pressure mounting steadily on Judith from both her personal and professional life, she starts to crack under pressure and gets caught in a trap. With a decision needing to be made on which life she wants to choose, Judith decides to run away from it all, losing all control while the situation spirals out of control.
Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director is happily married to Oto, a screenwriter. However, Oto suddenly dies after leaving behind a secret. 2 years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully cope with the loss of his wife, receives an offer to direct a play at a theatre festival and drives to Hiroshima with his car. There, he meets Misaki, a reticent woman assigned to become his chauffeur. As they spend time together, Kafuku confronts the mystery of his wife that quietly haunts him.
Originally released in 1967, RUSH TO JUDGEMENT presents evidence from first hand witnesses of the Kennedy assassination to challenge the conclusions of the Warren Commission’s Report that three shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository.
When a magic trick goes awry at a children’s birthday party, the authoritative father of the family turns into a chicken. An avalanche of coincidental absurdities befalls everyone; the mother, whose mundane life was dedicated to her husband and children, is now urged to come to the fore and take care of her family. While moving heaven and earth to bring her husband back and secure their survival, she goes through a total transformation
Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey’s documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe, whose controversial photographs of the 1970s New York BDSM scene caused national debate (courtesy of HBO Canada). Debuting on Jan. 18, 2016, 4 screenings run at the AGO’s Jackman Hall until Jan. 21.
Films We Like is proud to announce a new collaboration with Janus Films, bringing two old and new masterpieces from around the world to screens across Canada: Kirsten Johnson’s stunning cinematographic autobiography “Cameraperson” and Juzo Itami’s 1985 raucous food comedy “Tampopo.”
Films We Like is pleased to announce that Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger is opening in theatres across Canada starting in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, London and Montreal on Friday, November 4, 2016 followed by openings in Saskatoon on Friday, November 7; Waterloo on November 15; Winnipeg on November 25; Edmonton on December 22 and in Regina on December 29.
Gianfranco Rosi’s new award-winning documentary Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) will open on Friday, October 21, 2016 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox following its Canadian Premiere at TIFF 2016 in the Masters Programme.
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation in a dynamic, never-before-seen way, Keith Maitland’s TOWER reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
Films We Like is pleased to present Gianfranco Rosi’s new award-winning documentary Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Masters Programme.
Films We Like is pleased to present Kasper Collin’s new documentary I Called Him Morgan at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of TIFF Docs.
Kasper Collin’s second feature-length documentary, I Called Him Morgan looks at one of the music world’s most shocking and talked-about murders.
On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This documentary by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together. A film about love, jazz and America with cinematography by Bradford Young (DOP, Selma).
KASPER COLLIN, director/ producer
Kasper Collin’s first feature-length film was My Name is Albert Ayler (2005), in which he draws a portrait of American jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler’s life. It was among the most well received theatrically released documentaries in UK and US during 2007 and 2008.
FILMS WE LIKE
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Altman) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada. Recent releases include Force Majeure, Finding Vivian Maier, and the Academy Award-winner Ida.
Running time: 91 minutes
TBC with English subtitles
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Like The Stooges and their music, GIMME DANGER is a little wild, messy, emotional, funny, primitive and sophisticated in the most unrefined way. Long live The Stooges’! – Jim Jarmusch
Films We Like is pleased to present Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger at the Toronto International Film Festival in the TIFF DOCS programme.
Familiar to TIFF audiences since his 1984 seminal indie film “Strangers Than Paradise”, Jim Jarmusch is a true American auteur. Favouring mood and character over plot, Jarmusch’s films view America through the eyes of the outsider, a hallmark of his more than 21 films as a director. Gimme Danger is Jarmusch’s second documentary profiling a musician after Year of the Horse that followed Neil Young and Crazy Horse on their 1997 concert tour.
Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges’ powerful and aggressive style of rock-n-roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960’s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, R&B, and free jazz, the band planted the seeds for what would be called punk and alternative rock in the decades that followed. Jim Jarmusch’s new film Gimme Danger chronicles the story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock-n-roll bands of all time.
Gimme Danger presents the context of the Stooges emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relates their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy.
Jim Jarmusch, Director, Writer
Jim Jarmusch lives and works in New York. Films include Permanent Vacations (1980); Stranger than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (19991), Dead Man (1995), Year of the Horse (1997), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), The Limits of Control (2009), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Paterson (2016) and the short film International Trailer Night (2002).
FILMS WE LIKE
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Altman) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent and international films in Canada. Recent releases include Force Majeure, Finding Vivian Maier, and the Academy Award-winner Ida.
Running time: 108 minutes
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Media Contact:
Virginia Kelly, Meghan Parnell
V Kelly & Associates